Dose and scatter characteristics of a novel cone beam CT system for musculoskeletal extremities

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zbijewski, W ^a   Sisniega, A ^b   Vaquero, J J ^b   Muhit, A ^a   Packard, N ^c   Senn, R ^c   Yang, D ^c   Yorkston, J ^c   Carrino, J A ^d   Siewerdsen, J H ^a,d  

^a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cone beam CT; extremities imaging; flat panel detector; Monte Carlo simulation; musculoskeletal radiology; orthopaedics; rheumatology; scatter modeling; system optimization

Indexed keywords

CONE-BEAM CT; FLAT-PANEL DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RHEUMATOLOGY; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOPEDICS; RADIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860381391     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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